Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 15, 2021

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Jonathan Greechan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jonathan Greechan is co-founder of the world's largest pre-seed accelerator, Founder Institute , has run over 100 webinars including 100,000+ live attendees, and is one of Meetup's most active organizers. More individuals than ever are donning the investor cap. Almost a fifth of U.S. equity trading in 2020 was driven by mom-and-pop investors — up from around 15% in the previous year.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 15, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Investors and entrepreneurs from the Pacific Northwest and around the world will reunite in Portland and online May 4-6 for ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing! The conference, which kicks off May 3 with the Innovation Funders Showcase , will provide attendees a dynamic virtual experience under the themes of economic recovery, angel education, and expanding horizons.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. Lingoda , which connects students who want to learn a language — currently English, Spanish, French or German — with native-speaking teachers who run thousands of 24/7 live, immersion classes across a range of language levels, has picked up $68 million (€57 million).

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Red Rocket

APRIL 15, 2021

If you are investing material dollars in marketing campaigns, more often than not, you have considered engaging, or have engaged, an advertising agency to assist you with those efforts. Those decisions whether or not to manage your marketing campaigns with in-house teams vs. third party agencies are typically not easy decisions. And, if you decide to outsource to an agency, the selection process can be overwhelming, with the thousands of agencies out there to choose from.

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StartupNation

APRIL 15, 2021

The 2021 Midwest Venture Showcase , a partnership between the Midwest Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) and InvestMidwest , will showcase 57 companies actively seeking funding to an audience of top-tier investors, entrepreneurs, researchers and business executives at the virtual event on April 27 to 28, 2021. The Midwest companies in the Showcase span the life sciences, medical device, agriculture/food and tech industries.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Four years ago, MasterClass, a platform that sells celebrity-taught classes, invited chess legend Garry Kasparov to teach a class. He said yes, but soon realized that creating a message that could satisfy a majority of players was a “struggle throughout the process.”. While the class did pretty well, Kasparov found it “a little bit annoying” that he had to downplay concepts and stick to a specific structure.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 15, 2021

Her online marketing skills are entrepreneurial diamonds. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Chili Piper , which has a sophisticated SaaS appointment scheduling platform for sales teams, has raised a $33 million B round led by Tiger Global. Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. The company will use the capital raised to accelerate product development.

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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 15, 2021

Spilling the beans could cost them their business — or so they think. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

JustKitchen , a cloud kitchen startup, will start trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) Venture Exchange on Thursday morning. It is doing a direct listing of its common shares, having already raised $8 million at a $30 million valuation. The company says this makes it one of the first—if not the first—cloud kitchen company to go public in North America.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 15, 2021

As Israel celebrates 73 years of independence, the country has cemented its place as a global tech powerhouse, with more than 60 privately-held ‘unicorns’ valued at more than $1 billion; more than 80 Israeli publicly traded companies listed in the United States; and some of the most innovative ideas and technologies in the world. Read more here. The post [TytoCare in The Jerusalem Post] Independence Day: The technologies making Israel proud in 2021 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

We all know the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital adoption in a number of areas, particularly in the financial services space. Within financial services, there are few spaces hotter than B2B payments. With a $120 trillion market size , it’s no surprise that an increasing number of fintechs focused on digitizing payments have been attracting investor interest.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 15, 2021

As Israel celebrates 73 years of independence, the country has cemented its place as a global tech powerhouse, with more than 60 privately-held ‘unicorns’ valued at more than $1 billion; more than 80 Israeli publicly traded companies listed in the United States; and some of the most innovative ideas and technologies in the world. Read more here. The post [D-ID in The Jerusalem Post] Independence Day: The technologies making Israel proud in 2021 appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Meet Feels , a new French startup that wants to change how dating apps work. According to the company, scrolling through photos and reading descriptions tend to be a boring experience. Feels want to improve profiles so that navigating the app feels more like watching TikTok videos or browsing stories. “For the past 10 years, there’s been little innovation in the industry,” co-founder and CEO Daniel Cheaib told me.

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Feedough

APRIL 15, 2021

In just 5 years, Afterpay has carved its presence into Australian and international markets, with an increasing number of customers adapting to its innovative interest-free payment solution that lets them buy first and pay later. With a gigantic $30+ billion market capitalisation , Afterpay has succeeded in revolutionising the “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) industry.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Plentina co-founders Kevin Gabayan and Earl Valencia. E-wallets are rapidly gaining popularity in the Philippines, overtaking credit cards, which have a penetration rate of under 10%. Fintech startup Plentina is leveraging that trend with buy now, pay later (BNPL) installment loans that can be used and repaid through e-wallets. The company announced today it has closed a $2.2 million seed round, co-led by former Tableau executive and ClearGraph chief executive officer Andrew Vigneault, Unpopular

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The Seraf Compass

APRIL 15, 2021

As most investors know, the next step after an initial pitch is usually a longer format “deep dive” type of meeting. In Prepping an Entrepreneur for a Deep Dive Meeting with Investors, we talked about what a deep dive meeting is, and, more importantly, how to help prepare an entrepreneur for one. Now let’s look at how a team can navigate its way through a deep dive so it can move forward with investors into the due diligence process. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Word nerds with a love for linguistic curiosities and novel nomenclature that’s more fulsome than their ability to make interesting new terms stick will be thrilled by Yak Tack : A neat little aide – mémoire (in Android and iOS app form) designed for expanding (English) vocabulary, either as a native speaker or language learner. Yak Tack uses adaptive spaced repetition to help users remember new words — drawing on a system devised in the 1970s by German scientist Sebastian Leit

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 15, 2021

Last night I watched the NY Knicks win their fourth straight game on the road in New Orleans. They are now 29-27 and have a fighting chance of being a.500 team this season with only 16 regular season games left. This is essentially the same team that went 21-45 last year. Elfrid Payton, RJ Barrett, Julius Randle, Mitchell Robinson, Taj Gibson, and Reggie Bullock were all on that 21-45 team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Coinbase’s direct listing was a massive finance, startup and cryptocurrency event that impacted a host of public and private investors, early employees, and crypto-enthusiasts. Regardless of where one sits in the broader tech and venture world, Coinbase storming north of a $100 billion valuation during its first day of trading was the biggest startup happening of the year.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 15, 2021

With summer just around the corner, YC startups have projects that could benefit from the help of industrious student interns. Over 20 startups have posted open positions on YC’s Work at a Startup, which range from engineering to marketing to sales and more. Really promising startups are hiring this summer, including: OpenSea (W18) is the largest marketplace for NFTs, and is also where digital artist Beeple regularly showcases and sells his own work.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

If you or a loved one has ever undergone a tumor removal as part of cancer treatment, you’re likely familiar with the period of uncertainty and fear that follows. Will the cancer return, and if so, will the doctors catch it at an early enough stage? C2i Genomics has developed software that’s 100x more sensitive in detecting residual disease, and investors are pouncing on the potential.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 15, 2021

A story of a CEO attuned to creating great company culture. A CEO friend of mine who managed her one-hundred-person remote workforce as a virtual company told me her story of how she welcomed new employees as she grew her firm. Strike that. She over-welcomed her new employees. Preparing for the new employee. Days before the official start date, she made sure that the new employee’s business cards arrived in the mail, that the employee’s phone and Internet services were up and running, and that

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company aiming to deploy robotaxis in San Francisco and Dubai , has added Walmart as an investor in an extended fundraising round that has grown to $2.75 billion. The company said it has a post-money valuation of more than $30 billion. Walmart and several unnamed institutional investors added capital to a $2 billion equity round announced back in January that was led by Microsoft.

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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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